Jan 2026
Most automation starts as a one-off: you want to extract data from a site, or verify a checkout flow, or monitor a competitor's pricing. You write a task, run it once, get the result. But then you realize you want to run it again — tomorrow, or next week, or every day.
A one-off run requires someone to click a button. A routine run should not. BrowserPilot lets you save a working run as a template — capturing the task description, output schema, and any configuration. Once you have a template, you can run it again without setting it up from scratch.
A template you run on a cadence becomes a scheduled task. You attach a cron expression (like '0 9 * * *' for 9am every day) and BrowserPilot runs the template on that schedule. No human intervention, no manual kick-off, no tickets.
Every scheduled run still works exactly like a manual run. It streams live in the dashboard if you want to watch. It emits a signed webhook when it finishes, so your backend can act on the result. It tracks cost per step, so you can see how your scheduled jobs accumulate spend.
Scheduling also exposes patterns you might not see from one-off runs. Run a price monitor once and you get one data point. Run it every hour for a week and you see how prices fluctuate throughout the day, when competitors adjust their pricing, when sales start and end. The value of automation compounds.
If a scheduled run fails, you get the full session replay — steps, screenshots, errors — so debugging is the same as a manual run. You can see exactly where it broke, why it broke, and what changed since the last successful run. That feedback loop is how you improve your templates from 'barely works' to 'production ready'.